{"id":206,"date":"2014-04-11T08:27:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/?p=206"},"modified":"2021-11-18T09:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T08:44:31","slug":"introduction-to-geographical-information-systems-using-quantum-gis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/2014\/04\/introduction-to-geographical-information-systems-using-quantum-gis\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Geographical Information Systems using Quantum GIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>When: <\/b>19<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 20<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/p>\n<p><b>Where: <\/b>University of Leeds, Leeds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This 1.5 day course provides an introduction to Quantum GIS, an open source Geographic Information System software package. You will be introduced to the various components of the\u00a0software and learn how to\u00a0work with both vector and raster\u00a0data layers. You will learn how to run simple geospatial analyses, how to edit existing maps\u00a0and how to create maps using your own data, which we encourage you to bring with you to the course.\u00a0Lectures will be interspersed with\u00a0hands-on practical exercises. A variety of datasets will be used that cover socio-economic as well as physical geography domains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please note: this is an entry level GIS course and is therefore not appropriate for experienced ArcGIS or MapInfo users wanting to learn QGIS. We can recommend alternatives for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Fees:<\/b> \u00a345 for UK postgraduate students; \u00a390 for RCUK funded researchers, public sector staff and staff at registered charity organisations; \u00a3220 for all others. (Fees include course materials, lunch on the first day and refreshments throughout).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>For further information and to register, please visit<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/store.leeds.ac.uk\/browse\/extra_info.asp?compid=1&amp;modid=2&amp;deptid=9&amp;catid=47&amp;prodid=426\">http:\/\/store.leeds.ac.uk\/browse\/extra_info.asp?compid=1&amp;modid=2&amp;deptid=9&amp;catid=47&amp;prodid=426<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or contact Rosie Temple at <a href=\"mailto:r.temple@leeds.ac.uk\">r.temple@leeds.ac.uk<\/a> \/ Tel: 0113 343 3535<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When: 19th \u2013 20th June Where: University of Leeds, Leeds &nbsp; This 1.5 day course provides an introduction to Quantum GIS, an open source Geographic Information System software package. You will be introduced to the various components of the\u00a0software and learn how to\u00a0work with both vector and raster\u00a0data layers. You will learn how to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfM5Ac-3k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/arcticdoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}